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Attended Roosevelt Elementary and Lincoln Jr. High Schools in Park Ridge, and graduated from Maine Township High School in 1964. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1968, and UCLA, taking a Ph.D. in 1974. He taught at UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, and UC San Diego before moving in 1976 to the Philadelphia area to take a position at the University of Pennsylvania. He married Beatriz C. de Jesus de Souza on December 31, 1967, divorcing in 1971. They had one child, Adrian Geoffrey Harpham (b. 10 November 1968). Adrian graduated from Winchester Middle School in 1986, and attended Berklee College of Music from 1988-91.

Geoffrey Galt Harpham is an American academic who currently serves as the fifth President and Director of the National Humanities Center, succeeding Charles Frankel, William Bennett, Charles Blitzer, and Robert Connor. One of the characteristics of his tenure has been the encouragement of dialogue between the humanities on the one hand and the natural and social sciences on the other.
 He is at the same time a Visiting Research Professor of English at Duke University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and also a Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.[3] He is in addition a member of the Board of Visitors of Ralston College. (Source: Wikipedia.

Geoffrey married Joan BARASOVSKA in 1981 in Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Joan was born on 12 Dec 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Wood Harpham was born in Sterling (505 W. 3rd St.) on 14 March 1919. His family moved to Park Ridge, IL, when he was two. He attended Central School and Lincoln Jr. High School in Park Ridge before graduating from Maine Township High School in 1937. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1941. Enlisting immediately after Pearl Harbor, he served in the U. S. Navy for three and a half years as a supply officer, achieving the rank of Lieutenant j.g. He was stationed in England and Scotland, and went into France at D-Day plus 2. On his return, he became the editor of The School Musician, and worked for a number of advertising agencies in Chicago before starting Proebsting, August, and Harpham in 1958. In 1965, he started The Harpham Company, with offices at 333 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, where he worked until his death in 1981. (source: Geoffrey Galt Harpham)

John married Mardel Marie JERRICK in 1941 in Seattle, King, Washington. Mardel (daughter of Frank Thomas JERRICK and Marie Antoinette BRUSEK) was born on 15 Sep 1919 in Berwyn, Cook, Illinois; died on 20 Oct 2006 in Park Ridge, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois

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He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1895. At some point, he moved to Clinton, IA. He married Josephine Elliott in Sterling (b. 1883, d. 1936); uncertain about date of marriage. They lived in Clinton for awhile, then moved to Oregon (Portland, Eugene, Roseburg), where they lived until 1917 before returning to Sterling (1917-1921).

John married Josephine Ruth ELLIOTT. Josephine was born on 31 May 1882 in Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois; died on 19 Nov 1936 in Evanston, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Josephine was raised in Sterling and graduated from the Township High School in 1901, and from the University of Illinois in 1905. She died by her own hand in 1936.

Frank married Marie Antoinette BRUSEK. Marie was born in 1885; died in 1955. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]